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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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look up information for me, and insisted upon presenting me
with a new map, and a particularly good one, which was
afterwards of the utmost service to me. I like to record these
little acts of kindness and consideration which I have received
from Russians individually, because I believe there are no two
nations that would take to each other more than the Russians
and ourselves, if the opportunity were forthcoming, and the
more the members of each nation know each other the better
it would be for us both.
Another of the acquaintances I made at Kalgan was the
ex-captain of a Chinese gunboat which had been engaged in
the action at Foochow during the Franco-Chinese war. His
was a curious story. The Chinese have a principle that in a
battle a commander must either be victorious or else die.
This man's vessel had been moored at some distance from the
French fleet, and had consequently escaped the fate of the
rest of the Chinese ships, and had not been blown out of
the water. The captain, seeing the day was lost, and not
being able to do anything to retrieve the situation with his little
gunboat, had run ashore and escaped. The Chinese Emperor,
however, considered this a most ignominious proceeding. If
the French had not killed him, he ought to have killed himself,
and, as he had not done so, he was ordered into exile for life
to the Mongolian border, and told to think himself fortunate
that he had not been executed. And here the poor little
gentleman was—very sore against his own government, but
lively and cheery withal, and certainly most useful to me.
He used to accompany me for hours through the bazaars,
trying to get things which I wanted, or to obtain information
about the road.
Kalgan has some very good shops, and I even bought a
watch there. It does an immense trade with the Mongols,
and with the caravans which start from there northwards across
the desert to Siberia. But even here we could learn nothing
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